Newark, United States
University asks for courtesy as students abuse seminarians
Students at a Catholic university have been urged to be civil after seminarians on campus were reportedly verbally abused.Mary Meehan, interim president at Seton Hall, New Jersey, said her office had been informed of “several instances of foul language and incivility being aimed at members of our Immaculate Conception Seminary”. In a letter to staff and students, she added: “This is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.” Seton Hall, named after St Elizabeth Ann Seton, is a diocesan university founded in 1856. It has about 10,000 students. In August it hired a law firm to investigate sex abuse allegations involving seminarians. Some of the allegations concerned Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, the former president of the university’s board of trustees.
